picture alliance : cooperates with online photo service provider myprinting.de

Frankfurt-based stock photo agency Picture Alliance is collaborating with Munich-based online photo service Myprinting. From now on, users on the newly designed website www.myprinting.de can access the agency's professional image collection, spanning categories such as Landscape, Travel, Decades and Animals, as well as Symbol Photographs and apply them to the further processing of all photo products by Myprinting. The kick-off collection is 250 pictures strong and will be expanded with more motifs in the future.

The Picture Alliance photographs are available from their very own image portal on www.myprinting.de. Following the selection, they can be used for printing on posters, canvasses or plates, amongst others. Besides these large format interior design purposes (up to 300 x 100 cm), the photographs will be – together with personal pictures – available for photo calendar design, photo albums and image collages.

To make this possible, Myprinting presents the “Posterdesigner”, an intuitive tool, which lets the user choose from over 150 different templates on various themes. The pictures within the collage can be freely placed, scaled and rotated, so that every user can create their very own, personal piece of art. Thus, individual ideas can be realised in the blink of an eye.

“With Myprinting, we found an innovative and cooperative partner from the field of individual photo printing, which places great importance on the most modern printing techniques, usability and products of the highest quality standards.” says Edith Thompson, CEO of Picture Alliance.

Johannis Hatt, CEO of Myprinting adds: “With Picture Alliance, we are pleased to have attained one of Germany's largest stock photo agencies as a partner. Building on the foundation of the image portal on www.myprinting.de, we are looking forward to realising more exciting ideas in 2010.”

The dpa Picture Alliance GmbH, located in Frankfurt/Main, is a 100% subsidiary of the dpa Deutsche Presse Agency – Germany's biggest news agency and one of Germany’s leading stock photo agencies, catering for image production, documentation and marketing.

The main image suppliers are the Leading Members dpa image services, akg-images, omage agency Huber, kpa, OKAPIA, Photoshot and Picture Press. At www.picture-alliance.com, the agency runs a content portal with a current total of ten million images, graphics, illustrations and videos covering various categories such as news, politics, sport, economy, art, history, nature, travel, lifestyle, wellness, entertainment and stock. Furthermore, Picture Alliance is the official photo agency of the German Olympia Squad and partner of several other athletic organisations and institutions.